[Building Sakai] jsmath license

[john.bush at rsmart.com]

Sounds like good idea, I gave it a vote

Sent from my commodore 64

On Oct 20, 2009, at 3:31 PM, Steve Swinsburg  
<steve.swinsburg at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've filed another Jira to add jsMath back into reference. It adds a  
> bit of weight to the webapp build but I think it's worth it to bring  
> a good math solution into Sakai. It's actively maintained as well.
>
> http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-17249
>
> Comments and votes would be great.
>
> thanks,
> Steve
>
>
> On 21/10/2009, at 7:55 AM, Steve Swinsburg wrote:
>
>> Hi John,
>>
>> Yep its now Apache 2.0 (as of 2005 actually):
>>
>> Finally, a number of users have asked that the license for jsMath  
>> be changed from the GPL to a more lenient one. To accommodate this,  
>> jsMath has switched to the Apache Licence 2. This should make it  
>> easier for you to include jsMath as part of your own packages, even  
>> if they are commercial ones.
>>
>> We have it in our local msub build, a word of warning though, it's  
>> enormous and makes building the library webapp take an extremely  
>> long time. It would be good to get into core though so the wiki has  
>> jsMath support OOTB. Other tools could leverage this as well.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Steve
>>
>>
>> On 21/10/2009, at 7:51 AM, John Bush wrote:
>>
>>> the readme is rwiki says jsmath is GPL, but when the website is
>>> telling me Apache 2.0
>>> http://www.math.union.edu/~dpvc/jsMath/download/jsMath.html
>>>
>>> Did they change their license, is the readme in rwiki just dated, or
>>> am I missing something here ?
>>>
>>> John Bush
>>> Development Manager
>>> rSmart
>>>
>>>
>>>
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